Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
Quotes to Explore
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.
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I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
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Spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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I only got beef with those that violate me; I shall annihilate thee.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
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There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.
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I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.
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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
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I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.
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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.
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That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
